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Oddities

LAKIYA: On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife.
She hasn’t seen him since he moved down the road in their dusty Bedouin town and started a new family, with seven more children.
“I can’t ...

Opinion

The Nepali Congress and Nepal Communist Party have been entrusted with mandates to govern several times. However, all of them have failed to steer the state for a single term of five years
Nepal’s rulers have largely failed to understand the country’s ecology. Nepali rulers over the decades...

Education

BOSTON: The latest crop of US Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class, and almost half of this year’s recipients of the prestigious scholarship to Oxford University in England are either immigrants or first-generation Americans, the Rhodes Trust announced Sunday.
Among th...

Science & Technology

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one.
The moon, Earth and sun will line up this weekend for the only total lunar eclipse this year and next. At the same time, the moon will be ever so closer to Earth and appear slightly bigger and brigh...

Lifestyle

GENEVA: Christie's sold the "Pink Legacy" diamond at auction Tuesday for more than $50 million including fees, saying it's a new world record price per carat for a pink diamond.
Christie's said renowned jeweler Harry Winston was the buyer. The auction house had expected to fetch $30 million t...

World

DHAKA: Bangladesh has denied entry to 31 Rohingya Muslims trying to enter from India and they are stuck in no-man's land on the border, Bangladesh authorities said on Monday, as India cracks down on members of the community.
The stranded Rohingya, including women and children, had been living...